Mark loves the mountains and oceans but a lack of both in Indianapolis led him to pursue comedy. He is currently performing with INDYPROV, Fleece Academy, Defective Comics and The Dinner Detective.

Katie Hetlage

Hometown: St. Louis, MO

Favorite game: Switch Left, Forward-Reverse

Comedy Influences: Amy Poehler, Aidy Bryant, all of the Kardashians

Katie graduated from Butler University in May 2015 with a degree in Secondary Education and graduated from Indyprov classes in October 2015 with no degree at all. She spends her days teaching high schoolers, which means she’s performing improv 24/7 and that’s pretty cool.

Bill Skaggs

Hometown: Louisville, KY

Favorite game: Boy Band

Comedy Influence: Tina Fey, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin

Bill serves as the troupe's Managing Creative Director and has been directing, writing and acting for more than a decade in Indianapolis.

Maggie Paino

Hometown: Ft. Wayne, IN

Favorite game: switch left

Comedy Influence: Steve Martin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Maggie's goal in life is to be featured in the "Stars are Just Like Us" section of "US Weekly" magazine, preferably while lugging around an extra large bag of dog food. Oh, and she'll never understand fax machines so don't even try to explain them.

Derek Martz

Hometown: Carmel, IN

Favorite game: Christopher Walken

Comedy influences: Tina Fey, Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Gourley

I've been told I only have two sentences for my biography. Here goes nothing!

Like all defrocked pastors, Sam works for a non-profit. He has also studied improv at iO and CSz, holds a master’s degree from North Park Theological Seminary, and studied sociology at Purdue University. Sam loves to talk politics, spirituality, philosophy, the social sciences and horror movies.

In 2004 Chris joined his first improv troupe and has been performing ever since, making tens of dollars along the way! With all that fat cash, he enjoys spending time with his family and friends, playing with animals for a living and occasionally sleeping outside in the woods (occasionally by choice, sometimes due to his poor choices).

Aaron Beasley

Pete Reo

Favorite game: Oscar Winning Moment

Comedy Influence: All That, Whose Line is it Anyway and Seinfeld all got me into random, sketch and situational comedy. Also, Stephen Lynch to Mitch Hedberg.

Pete's been pretending to be other people to make friends laugh his whole life. Pete joined IndyProv in the fall of 2015 and he hopes to continue to gain fulfillment in making people laugh though Improv for many years to come.

Sara Rust

In 50 years Sara will be that person smelling the books in the back of the library full of iPads but for now she spends her Saturday's running themed 5k's and attempting to make people laugh. The highlight of her life is the 2004 Lafayette Park Middle School Spelling Bee where she took 1st place.

Youth from grades 5, 6, 7 and 8 are all invited to an improv summer camp like no other! Get you feet wet with improv games and activities all week long. The camp is 5 days long every day from 11am to 4pm and lunch is provided! Don’t wait spots are filling up fast!

Registration includes: lunch and snack every day, five days of improv training and a showcase performance for family and friends on the final day!

Workshop takes place at

Zion Evangelical United Church

603 N. New Jersey

Adult Summer Camp

Want to feel like a kid again? Our Adult Improv Camp is just for you. If you don't have time to take an 8-week course, we've jam packed improv training into one week. Learn to think on your feet, think fast and play to your inner funny person. Summer camp is open to all skill levels! The camp is 5 days from 6:00 - 8:30 pm!

The key to success in any business or organization is creative thinking and effective communication. No one is better equipped to train your employees in these skills than INDYPROV! On stage, we must work together every show not only to devise fun and surprising scenes, but to communicate to each other what it is we’ve thought of. These skills can be directly applied to your business to improve teamwork, creativity, productivity, sales, customer service